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BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fig. 152. — Spindle 

 whorl prom near 

 Phoenix, Arizona. 



Fig. 153. — Spindle whorl from 

 Pdeblo Vie jo Valley, Upper 

 Gila. 



Another from adobe ruins, 4^ miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, 

 collected by Dr. Edward Palmer, is of light-brown pottery having 

 a smooth surface. It is If inches in diameter and 

 ^ inch thick, the spindle hole | inch in diameter. 

 (Cat. No. 98007, U.S.N.M., fig. 152.) 



The specimens found with the whorl consist of 

 shell ornaments and a hardwood paddle-shaped 

 implement. 

 A crude large spindle whorl of light yellow tuff 

 2^ inches thick, j)ierced with a hole f inch in diameter, was found 

 by J. H. Carlton in the Pueblo Viejo Valley, Upper Gila River, Gra- 

 ham County, Arizona. (Cat. No. 98633, 

 U.S.N.M., fig. 153.) 



Pottery spindle whorls are also found 

 in the region south of the headwaters 

 of the Gila, one in the Museum coming 

 from Solomonsville, Graham County, 

 Arizona, collected by Dr. J. Walter 

 Fewkes (Cat. No. 177552, U.S.N.M., fig. 

 154), 1:1 inches in diameter, hole ^^ inch. 

 They are usually smaller than like whorls from the North, indicating 

 the spinning of finer thread. 



Fine thread was produced by the spinners of 

 this region and specimens are of somewhat fre- 

 quent occurrence. It was made up in hanks and 

 undyed. One of these hanks was found by Charles 

 Solomon on Bonita Creek, near 

 Solomonsville, Arizona. It was 

 laid over in strands 2G inches to 

 the turn; the yarn is about the 

 number of small cotton parcel 

 cord. Much of the yarn owes its 

 preservation to charring in the 

 house ruins, and we are thus enabled to say that 

 thread of the fineness of No. 12 cotton was made. 

 Specimens of six-strand cord of yucca fiber over 

 which are wound two cords of different color, the 

 method being to serve each color alternately, pass- 

 ing the cord not needed underneath, were found 

 in Bear Creek Cave. (Fig. 155, a, h.) The result 

 imitates a strand of beads, which was evidently 

 the idea in the mind of the man who placed the 

 cord around a large reed cigarette as an offering. 



A ball of yucca fiber cord (fig. 156, method of wrapping shown 

 at a), formed by carefully winding the cord on a cylindrical object, 



Fig. 154. — Spi ndle 

 whokl from 

 Solomonsville, 

 Arizona. 



Fig. 155. — Wound 

 cord from Bear 

 Creek Cave. 



